The handsome and tall Saul is chosen–Saul who looks like a king, who embodies authority. But the God of the Exodus has not shown God’s favor for Saul. The God who moves from despair, the God who reveals God’s name to those in pain, the God who picks stutterers to be God’s mouthpiece finds no…
Diary
Aaron Burns on Perfect Communication
Perfect communication is person-to-person. You see me, hear me, smell me, touch me. Television is the second form of communication; you can see me and hear me. Radio is the next; you hear me, but you don’t see me. And then comes print. You can’t see or hear me, so you must be able to…
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Mythology: Shallow Truth? Or Deep Truth?
“The Odyssey, from Greek mythology, is the classic Western saga, so much so that now we use the word “odyssey” to describe all significant human journeys. A religious myth is not something that is not true. Although it may not be true in particular, it is overwhelmingly true in general. Even the ancients knew…
The Impossibility of Happienss
But what if we are just stuck with our purchase or decision? What if the sale is final? Well, recognizing that nothing can be done about it we tend to get on with enjoying our life. And humans are remarkable at this. When the chips finally fall we tend to make the best of it….
Putting People in Crosshairs
As a Christian, I urge Christian political leaders to refrain from violent and divisive language….we do not need to put our opponents in crosshairs, or reload, but affirm our positions without personalizing, marginalizing, or threatening. We need to place the path of Christ – non-violence, forgiveness, and prophetic hospitality – ahead of our limited viewpoints….
Is someone renting free space in your head?
To forgive is to set someone free and then find out it’s you. To not forgive is to let someone rent free space in your head. Why let the wrong they did determine your joy? Revenge doesn’t work. Tweeted by Rob Bell On January 7th, 2011 Painting by cattoo
Europe According to The Vatican
Walter Benjamin’s Romantic Criticism
[Walter Benjamin’s]…idea is that criticism does not stand outside the work of art, but stands alongside, maybe even inside, the work of art, participating in the work in order to further express and tease out what the artist already put there. In this theory of criticism, we don’t need the critic to tell us what…
Richard Kerney & Paul Ricoeur Explain the Metamorphic Potential of Metaphore
Ricoeur’s analysis of imagination’s role of the metaphorical play of language leads him to the ontological paradox of creation-as-discovery. ‘Through the recovery of the capacity of language to create and recreate, we discover reality itself in the process of being created…Language in the making celebrates reality in the making.’ Ricoeur can thus conclude that ‘the…